Business Development Manager at Bosch Group

Corporate success at Bosch is determined by innovation capability and an edge in know-how. Accept with us the challenge of new tasks by your willingness to permanently learn something new.

Robert Bosch Nigeria Limited is a growing company of the Bosch group located in Lagos, Nigeria. We operate in the business divisions of Packaging Technology, Automotive Aftermarket, Power Tools, Security Systems and Thermo Technology.

Your responsibilities:

• Responsible to represent the interests of Automotive Aftermarket divisions
• Increase in turnover, profit and market share of Automotive Aftermarket divisions sales in defined area of work
• Responsible for implementation of Automotive Aftermarket divisions strategy (final call Parts, Bytes and services) and all AA sales activities in the country on distributor, wholesaler and workshop level
• Expansion of Bosch Service network in these markets
• Define the AA customer distribution strategy for the assigned country (win with the winners) in alignment with the Regional Director
• Responsible for customer relation and Customer Acquisition Projects in the assigned area
• Reach at least set targets under consideration of resources

Your competencies and qualifications:

• Preferably a Degree in Business Administration, Engineering
• Preferable 4-5 years working experience in sales / marketing environment / Independent After Market
• Technical understanding related to the automotive industry
• Excellent negotiation skills in decision maker environment
• Understanding of distribution and sales plan on account plan/ district / national level
• Understanding of target deployment and KPI steering
• Good communication skills to different levels externally and internally
• Strategically thinking and planning
• Additional assets: clear priority setting, team player, ability to handle conflicts
• Professional appearance
• Fit to the sales team
• Builder of strong long term relationship and networks
• Drivers license
• Willing to travel frequently
• PC literate with excellent skills in packages MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Excellent skills in English languages, German and French are a plus.
• Preferable work experience of SAP.